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The Dewan, also speaking in English, said, "I doubt if Ajeet would consent to the girl's going to the Pindari camp." Nana Sahib swung on his heel to face Baptiste. "Sirdar, when you give an order to a soldier and he refuses to obey, what do you do?" "Pouf, mon Prince," and Jean Baptiste snapped a thumb and finger expressively. "See, Dewani?"
The Pindari reached for the sandal, and as he slit at the leather thread, he commented: "Thou hast the subtlety of a true Patan; within, I take it, is something of value, and if it were in a pocket of thy jacket, or a fold at thy waist, those who might seek it with one slit of their discoverer, which is a piece of broken glass carrying an edge such as no blade would have, would take it up.
These bring wool, borax, and skins, which they exchange for the produce of the plains. From Bageswar the Pindari road is almost level for 22 miles, and runs alongside the Sarju. At first the valley is wide and well cultivated. Here and there are studded villages, of which the houses are roofed with thatching composed of pine needles.
"In his turban " Kassim commanded "in his turban, the nest of a thief's loot or the hiding-place of the knife of a murderer. Look ye in his turban!" As the turban was stripped from the head of Hunsa the Pindari gave it a whirling twist that sent its many yards of blue muslin streaming out like a ribbon and the parchment message fell to the floor.
If Holkar and Bhonsla did their part it would be Armageddon when the hell that was brewing burst. But Baptiste feared the Pindari. As he swung here and there on his Arab the horse's hoofs seemed to pound from the resonant sands the words "Amir Khan Amir Khan! Pin-dar-is, Pin-dar-is!"
And you were a brave man, such as a Pindari loves; rather than announce thyself as an Englay the paper gone and thy mission failed thou wouldst have stood up to death like a soldier." He put his hand caressingly on Barlow's knee, adding: "By the Beard of the Prophet thou art a man!
He locked the box and slipped the key-chain about the dead man's waist; then seizing the right hand of his victim he smeared the thumb in blood and imprinted it upon the paper just beside the seal of the British Raj, muttering: "This will do for Nana Sahib as well as your head, Pindari, and is much easier hidden."
The foul riding in the game of polo that so nearly put him out of commission it had been deliberately foul, he knew that, but he had attributed it to a personal anger on the part of the Mahratta officer, bred of rivalry in the game and the fanatical hate of an individual Hindu for an Englishman. "Now that a message has come will the Sahib go to the Pindari camp?" Bootea persisted.
He would have undertaken it, at the instigation of Metcalfe, then resident at Delhi, a year earlier, but for the peremptory orders of Canning, at that time president of the board of control, who positively forbade him to embark on a new war. These orders were greatly relaxed after the bloodthirsty raid of Chítu, the famous Pindárí leader, who in 1816 desolated vast tracts of Central India.
Ajeet spoke: "Dewan Sahib, we be men as brave as Bhart we are of the same caste, but there is a difference between such an one as he took the head of and a Pindari Chief. The Pindaris are the wild dogs of Hind, they are wolves, and is it easy to trap a wolf?"
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